What the Tide Left
Seven shells, seven unreachable worlds — and what the chiton’s falling-apart armor knows about what really holds a life together.
Observations from the notebook. Human moments as much as natural ones: paintings, field notes, and what watching closely opens up about being human. Most of what I know about the nervous system, I learned first from watching something outside my own — deer, turtles, birds, shells, and people too.
Seven shells, seven unreachable worlds — and what the chiton’s falling-apart armor knows about what really holds a life together.
The comms officer of the winter woods. A palm-sized bird with a sky-swallowing voice, and what the flock that trusts it knows about courage.
The special operator of the bird kingdom…and what its silent, sightless precision teaches us about attention.